On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:21:07PM -0800, Nick Webb wrote: > Hi All - > > I posted this question to the ubuntu-users list perviously, but this > seems like the proper list to post to (I just discovered this list). > > I've got a couple projects coming up that will have a file systems >= > 2TB and I'm thinking of using XFS for it. Main feature of XFS I need is > the lack of fsck at startup (fsck for ext2/3 will take many hours with a > 2TB partition). The file system will also likely have many large files, > so XFS seems to be a good choice for this as well. > > Can anyone share their XFS experiences on Ubuntu Dapper? Is it as > stable as ext3 in your experience? Any tips/tricks/gotchas? Any other > file systems I should look at (JFS, ReiserFS, etc.)? > > I posed the same question to other Linux users I know, and there was a > mix of "I've had no problems" to "I stuck with ext3, it's solid and I > know I can trust it, despite the horrible fsck times." I'm really > curious to get other opinions, especially with the shipped binaries on > Dapper, as we only use LTS for production machines. > > Thanks! > > Nick > > > -- > Nick Webb > System Administrator > Freelock Computing - www.freelock.com > 206.577.0540 x22 > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
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